Obama has stated over and over that he is looking for a “responsible plan” that would not “affect current beneficiaries”. Much union negotiators, Obama, the GOP, and I suspect even the Tea Partiers are well aware of how to cull the herd. Isn’t the Tea Party disproportionately constituted of seniors? A statistic that I borrowed from elsewhere and posted a few months ago has been doing the rounds again in the last few days: it shows that a good number of people who are critical of welfare or entitlement programs are on such programs themselves. Combine such hate, false beliefs and the divide-and-conquer of guaranteeing “current recipients” benefits, and I would think you get a pretty pliant senior crowd.
No?
—ravi